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2022 Covington County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Covington County, AL went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.0 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2810th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 14, 2022 22:30 | June 15, 2022 07:30 | 9h | 747 | 689 |
| 2 | July 28, 2022 20:30 | July 28, 2022 22:45 | 2h 15m | 707 | 596 |
| 3 | February 3, 2022 18:30 | February 3, 2022 23:00 | 4h 30m | 542 | 410 |
| 4 | January 3, 2022 02:15 | January 3, 2022 08:45 | 6h 30m | 457 | 653 |
| 5 | December 6, 2022 12:00 | December 6, 2022 18:15 | 6h 15m | 456 | 1,242 |
| 6 | March 18, 2022 15:00 | March 18, 2022 22:15 | 7h 15m | 393 | 645 |
| 7 | January 24, 2022 16:15 | January 24, 2022 16:45 | 30m | 374 | 187 |
| 8 | December 14, 2022 23:30 | December 15, 2022 07:45 | 8h 15m | 370 | 884 |
| 9 | January 5, 2022 16:45 | January 5, 2022 18:15 | 1h 30m | 353 | 177 |
| 10 | October 8, 2022 16:45 | October 8, 2022 18:00 | 1h 15m | 310 | 388 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 30 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Covington County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 1.8 hrs | 1.21 | 1.5 hrs | 1.14 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.61 | 1.5 hrs | 1.16 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southern Pine Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Andalusia | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Opp - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 81% of Alabama's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 30,321 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Covington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Covington County, AL annual power outage report, 2022, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2022/alabama/covington-county